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Thursday, May 18, 2017

St. Venantius, Martyr

St. Venantius, Martyr
(by Fr. Prosper Gueranger 1870)

Today's Martyr
carries us back to the persecutions under the Roman Emperors. It was at
Camerino, in Italy, that he bore his testimony to the true Faith; and
the devotion wherewith he is honoured by the people of those parts,
(which are under the temporal Sovereignty of the Roman Pontiff,) has
occasioned his Feast being kept throughout the Church. Let us,
therefore, joyfully welcome this new champion, who fought so bravely for
our Emmanuel. Let us congratulate him upon his having the privilege of
suffering Martyrdom during the Paschal Season, all radiant as it is with
the grand victory won by Life over Death.

The account given by
the Liturgy, upon St. Venantius, is a tissue of miracles. The
omnipotence of God seemed, on this and many other like occasions, to be
resisting the cruelty of the executioners, in order to glorify the
Martyr. It served also as a means for converting the bystanders, who, on
witnessing these almost lavish miracles, were frequently heard to
exclaim, that they too wished to be Christians, and embrace a Religion
which was not only honoured by the superhuman patience of its Martyrs,
but was so visibly protected and favored by heaven.

Venantius, who was
born at Camerino, was but fifteen years of age when he was accused of
being a Christian, and arraigned before Antiochus, the Governor of the
City, under the reign of the Emperor Decius. He presented himself to the
Governor at the City Gate, where, after being long and uselessly coaxed
and threatened, he was scourged, and condemned to be chained. But he
was miraculously unfettered by an Angel, and was then burned with
torches, and was hung, with his head downwards, over a fire, that he
might be suffocated by the smoke. One of the officials, by name
Anastasius, having noticed the courage wherewith he suffered his
torments, and having also seen an Angel walking, in a white robe, above
the smoke, and again liberating Venantius,--he believed in Christ, and,
together with his family, was baptized by the priest Porphyrius, with
whom he afterwards merited to receive the palm of martyrdom.

Venantius was again
brought before the Governor; and being solicited, though to no purpose,
to give up his Faith, he was thrown into prison. A herald, named
Attalus, was sent thither, to tell him that he also had once been a
Christian, but had renounced the profession on discovering that it was
false, and that Christians were duped into giving up the good things of
the present by the vain hope of what was to follow in the next life. But
the high-minded soldier of Christ, knowing well the snares of our
crafty enemy the devil, utterly spurned his minister from his presence.
Whereupon, he was again led before the Governor, and all his teeth were
beaten out, and his jaws broken; after which, he was thrown into a dung
pit. But, being delivered by an Angel, thence also, he again stood
before the judge, who, whilst Venantius was addressing him, fell from
the judgment-seat, and died exclaiming: "The God of Venantius is the
true One! destroy our gods!"

When this was made
known to the Governor, he immediately ordered Venantius to be exposed to
the lions: but those animals, forgetting their own savage nature, threw
themselves at his feet. The Saint, meanwhile, instructed the people in
the Christian Faith, and was therefore removed and again thrown into
prison. On the following day, Porphyrius told the Governor, that he had
had a vision during the night, and that he saw that those who were
bathed with water, by Venantius, were brilliant with a splendid light,
but that the Governor was covered with a thick darkness. This so
irritated the Governor, that he immediately ordered Porphyrius to be
beheaded, and Venantius to be dragged, until evening, along places
covered with thorns and thistles.

He was left there
half dead; but he again presented himself, in the morning, to the
Governor, who at once condemned him to be cast headlong from a rock.
Again, however, he was miraculously preserved in his fall, and was once
more dragged, for a mile, over rough places. Seeing that the soldiers
were tormented with thirst, Venantius made the sign of the Cross, and
water flowed from a rock, which was in a neighboring dell; on which
rock, Venantius left the impress of his knees, as may be still seen in
the Church which is dedicated to him. Many were moved, by that miracle,
to believe in Christ, and were all beheaded, together with Venantius, on
that very spot, by the Governor's orders. So awful were the lightnings
and earthquakes which followed the execution, that the Governor took to
flight. But he was not able to escape divine justice; and, a few days
after, met with a most humiliating death. Meanwhile, the Christians gave
honorable burial to the bodies of all these Martyrs, and they are now
reposing in the Church, which is dedicated to Venantius in the town of
Camerino.

Prayer:

Dear youthful Martyr,
loved of the Angels, and aided by them in thy combat! pray for us. Like
thyself, we too are soldiers of the Risen Jesus, and must give
testimony, before the world, to the Divinity and the Rights of our King.
The world has not always in its hands those material instruments of
torture, such as it made thee feel; but it is always fearful in its
power of seducing souls. It would rob us, also, of that New Life, which
Jesus has imparted to us and to all them that are His members; holy
Martyr, protect us under these attacks! Thou hadst partaken, during the
days of thy last Easter, of the divine Flesh of the Paschal Lamb, and
thy courage in Martyrdom redounded to the glory of this heavenly
nourishment. We, also, have been guests at the same holy Table; we,
also, have partaken of the Paschal Banquet. Like thee, we have known our
Lord in the breaking of BREAD (St. Luke, xxiv. 35): obtain for us the
appreciation of the divine mystery, of which we received the
first-fruits at Bethlehem, and which has been gradually developed,
within our souls, as well as before our eyes, by the merits of the
Passion and Resurrection of our Emmanuel. We are now, at this very
time, preparing to receive the plenitude of the divine gift of the
Incarnation. Pray for us, O Holy Martyr, that our hearts may more than
ever fervently welcome, and faithfully preserve, the rich treasures,
which are about to be offered us, by the sublime mysteries of the
Ascension and Pentecost. Amen

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Go forth confidently then, you knights, and repel the foes of the cross of Christ with a stalwart heart. Know that neither death nor life can separate you from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, and in every peril repeat, "Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." What a glory to return in victory from such a battle! How blessed to die there as a martyr! Rejoice, brave athlete, if you live and conquer in the Lord; but glory and exult even more if you die and join your Lord. Life indeed is a fruitful thing and victory is glorious, but a holy death is more important than either. If they are blessed who die in the Lord, how much more are they who die for the Lord!

How secure, I say, is life when death is anticipated without fear; or rather when it is desired with feeling and embraced with reverence! How holy and secure this knighthood and how entirely free of the double risk run by those men who fight not for Christ! Whenever you go forth, O worldly warrior, you must fear lest the bodily death of your foe should mean your own spiritual death, or lest perhaps your body and soul together should be slain by him.

Indeed, danger or victory for a Christian depends on the dispositions of his heart and not on the fortunes of war. If he fights for a good reason, the issue of his fight can never be evil; and likewise the results can never be considered good if the reason were evil and the intentions perverse. If you happen to be killed while you are seeking only to kill another, you die a murderer. If you succeed, and by your will to overcome and to conquer you perchance kill a man, you live a murderer. Now it will not do to be a murderer, living or dead, victorious or vanquished. What an unhappy victory--to have conquered a man while yielding to vice, and to indulge in an empty glory at his fall when wrath and pride have gotten the better of you!

But what of those who kill neither in the heat of revenge nor in the swelling of pride, but simply in order to save themselves? Even this sort of victory I would not call good, since bodily death is really a lesser evil than spiritual death. The soul need not die when the body does. No, it is the soul which sins that shall die.

The knight of Christ, I say, may strike with confidence and die yet more confidently, for he serves Christ when he strikes, and serves himself when he falls. Neither does he bear the sword in vain, for he is God's minister, for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good. If he kills an evildoer, he is not a mankiller, but, if I may so put it, a killer of evil. He is evidently the avenger of Christ towards evildoers and he is rightly considered a defender of Christians. Should he be killed himself, we know that he has not perished, but has come safely into port.

Once he finds himself in the thick of battle, this knight sets aside his previous gentleness, as if to say, "Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord; am I not disgusted with your enemies?" These men at once fall violently upon the foe, regarding them as so many sheep. No matter how outnumbered they are, they never regard these as fierce barbarians or as awe-inspiring hordes. Nor do they presume on their own strength, but trust in the Lord of armies to grant them the victory.

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